The Internet and Its Protocols

12.6 Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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issue of making file transfer lower priority than other traffic on busy networks,

and the Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer Protocol (SIFT/UFT) allows a

client to distribute files in advance of a request from a user. However, despite

these and other proposals, FTP and TFTP have grown to be the standard proto-

cols for file transfer in the Internet.

Many of the pros and cons of FTP and TFTP have been described in the pre-

ceding sections. The issues for consideration are security, robustness, reliability

(all strengths of FTP), simplicity of implementation, ...